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brown tabbies the larger the better, if well whether near or distant, this beautiful breed 

 proportioned. With the sterner sex brown will gain all the admiration and attention that 

 tabbies are decided favourites, and I cannot help it deserves. There is a distinct kind of brown 

 noticing that the very few fanciers who have tabby, so called, which may better be de- 

 taken up this breed amongst the gentler sex scribed as sable. These cats have not the 

 are what might be termed strong-minded. regular tabby markings, but the two colours 

 I have also remarked that when once are blended one with another, the lighter sable 

 fanciers start breeding brown tabbies they tone predominating. At the Crystal Palace 



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continue, and this cannot be truly said of 

 other breeds silvers, for instance ; but I would 

 fain see a steady increase to the ranks of 

 breeders of brown tabby Persians, and more 

 encouragement given at shows. I know that 

 as matters now stand fanciers complain they 

 cannot get any market for their tabby kittens, 

 and that classification is poor at shows and 

 prizes scarce. It is all too true, but surely it is 

 a " long lane that has no turning," and as every 

 dog has its day, so perhaps in the future, 



Cat Show of 1902 the class was for brown 

 tabby or sable. I was judging, and, considering 

 the mixed entries, I felt that markings must 

 not be of the first importance, and so awarded 

 first and second to Miss Whitney's beautiful 

 sable females, the third going to a well-marked 

 though out of condition brown tabby. These 

 sable-marked cats are rare, but still more beau- 

 tiful would be a cat entirely of the one tawny 

 colour a self sable, without markings. " The 

 most suitable factors to obtain this colour," 



